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Mother Jones environmental correspondent Julia Whitty had a front-row seat for the US Navy’s green transformation.

Hurtling toward the USS Nimitz in a biofuel-powered jet was just one of the adventures that Mother Jones environmental correspondent Julia Whitty had while reporting the cover story for the March/April 2013 issue of the magazine. Watch Julia talk about her adventures—and the US Navy’s green makeover—here:

If you’re in the Washington, DC area, you can see Julia speak at the next Climate Desk Live event on Wednesday February 27 at 9:30a.m, where host Chris Mooney will discuss the Navy’s charge towards energy independence with Dr. David W. Titley, retired naval officer who led the US Navy’s Task Force on Climate Change; Capt. James C. Goudreau, Director, Navy Energy Coordination Office; Dr. D. James Baker, Director of the Global Carbon Measurement Program of the William J. Clinton Foundation and Former Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Clinton Administration; and Julia Whitty.

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